Word: versa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NOTEBOOK: Correction--At the Princeton match, McNabb won her three-setter, while Kelly Granat lost hers, not vice versa...
...coined to spare the everyday user from having to refer to the device's more descriptive but longer name: modulator/ demodulator.Simply put, a modem takes analogsignals coming in over the phone line and converts them to digital 0's and 1's your computer can understand, and vice versa. Like the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your compact disc player, the modem is a link between the analog and digital worlds...
...think the general atmosphere is pretty good, but there are some tensions, and often tensions seem to center around athletes and non-athletes." Fridman says. "Nerds aren't really isolated from other people, but nerds don't interact so much with jocks, and vice versa...
...raise taxes on their company profits. The corporate income tax is supposed to go from 34% to 36%, or whatever the top individual rate becomes. The two must be the same to prevent owners of closely held corporations from shifting income from corporate to individual accounts, or vice versa, to take advantage of a lower rate...
...science can describe the Big Bang beginning of the universe but is incapable of fathoming the ultimate origins of matter and energy, which will always come under the realm of religion. George Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who directs the Vatican Observatory, warns against reducing science to religion, or vice versa. For instance, when the Big Bang theory was brand new, Pope Pius XII wrote that "scientists are beginning to find the finger of God in the creation of the universe." Coyne thinks the Pope was wrong to "take a scientific conclusion and interpret it in favor of supporting a theological...